While we are mucking around in Iraq our real enemies are working together!

"BEIJING, Jan. 27--Iran and China here Thursday discussed expansion of mutual cooperation as well as Iran’s peaceful nuclear activities.

In a meeting with the Chinese Communist Party’s international minister, Wang Jiarui, Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council Ali Larijani said the peaceful application of nuclear technology is among the legitimate rights of Iran.

"Iran suspended all its uranium enrichment activities two and a half years ago but the Europeans only showed us a mirage during this period. We now want to conduct nuclear research as the least expectation of the Iranian people," he said.

The SNSC secretary stressed that Tehran is ready to have extensive cooperation with other countries in this respect and China, as one of Iran’s friends, can observe Iran’s limited nuclear research, IRNA reported.

"Our sincere explanations have removed misunderstandings with the IAEA to a large degree and an IAEA delegation is now in Tehran," he said.
The Chinese official, for his part, expressed hope that the issue of Iran’s nuclear program would be solved through negotiations.

China maintains that the issue should be resolved within the IAEA framework and that it is the legitimate right of Iran to benefit from peaceful nuclear technology.
Talking to a CNN reporter on Thursday, Larijani criticized the United States’ approach. He added that the US criticism of China due to its support for Iran on account of Beijing’s energy demand indicates American bullying.

"Neither Iran nor China has violated the law," he said.
"Iran is a member of the IAEA and a signatory to the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. Therefore, we have to enjoy our rights."

He pointed out that Iran has resumed its nuclear research on a very limited scale and the IAEA inspectors are supervising the process.

Larijani said the main question is whether the hue and cry raised by the US and some of its allies is logical."
http://www.iran-daily.com/1384/2486/html

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Classic American liberal

This seems to be the inevitable confrontation (US vs China/Russia) if the current course continues. Check your PM Ben-Franklin.

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"Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty" - Thomas Jefferson

and drove a wedge between China and Russia. Now where's a diplomat like Nixon when we need one.

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the memories of a man in his old age
are the deeds of a man in his prime

roger waters

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"The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left."
Ecclesiastes 10:2 (NIV)